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THE TWO VILLAGES
Over the river, on the hill,
Lieth a village white and still;
'All aroundit the forest trees
Shiver and whisper in the breeze;
Over it sailing shadows go ,
Of soaring hawk and screaming crow,
And Mountain grasses, low and sweet,
Grow in the middle of every street.
Over the river, under the. hill,
Another village lieth still ;
There I see in the cloudy night
Twinkling stars of hckisehold light,
Fires that gleam from the smithy's door,
Mists that curl on the river -shore;
And in the roads no grasses grow,
For the wheels that hasten to and fin.
In that village oti the hill
Never is sound of smithy or mill ;
The houses are thatched with grass and flowers,
Never a clock to toll the hours;
The marble doors ate always shut,
You cannot enter in hall or hut;
All the villagers lie asleep ;
Never a grain to sow or reap,
Never in dreams to moan or sigh ;
Silent and idle and low they lie.
In that village under the hill,
When the night ii starry and. still,
Many a weary soul in prayer
Looks to the other village there,
And weeping and sighing longs to go
Up to that home from this below ;
•
Longs to sleep in the forest wild;
Whither have vanished wife and child,
And heareth, praying, this answer fall :
"Patience that village`shall hold ye all
COLUMBIADS : A Columbiad is a heavy
gun, capable of projecting a solid shot
or shell, with a large charge of powder,
at an angle.of projection of from five de
grees below to thirty above the horrizon ;
it may be said, therefore„ to combine the
essential qualities of the gun, the howit
zer, and the, mortar, and may be used in
place of either one or the other of thes3
pieces in'beacoast defense. It does not
differ in its external shape from ordinary
seacoast cannon.
At present there are two sizes of Co
lumbiads in use in our service, viz : the
eight inch and the ten inch. The former
weighs about 9,000 lbs., the charge of
powder 10 lbs., the solid shot G 4 lbs.,
and the shell 48 lbs., the charge of pow
der 10 lbs., the solid shot 128 lbs., and
the shell 100.1bs.
FAILURE TO LAY A TELEGRAPH CABLE.
—On the 14th of December an unsuc
cessful attempt was made to lay the tele
graph cable between Toulon and Al
giers. On that day the shore end was
successfully landed in the Bay of Sablet
tes, but the next day at noon, while the
vessel engaged in the service was en
deavoring to communicate with a French
frigate sent to aid her, the two fouled,
and the paying-out machinery carried
away. The cable was therefore buoyed
in 1300 fathoms water, and the vessels
put back for repairs.
DEATH . OF PROFESSOR HADDOCK.—The
NeW England papers announce the death
of Professor Charles B. Haddock, of
Dartmouth• College. Professor Had
dock was an accomplished scholar and
by instinct a gentleman. He was a rel
ative of Daniel Webster, and visibly
possessed some of the Websterian at
tributes of talent anal personal bearing.
In 1851 he was appointed Charge d'Af
fairs to Portugal, which place he held
for a few years with usefulness and credit.
DEATH Or THE KING Or PRUSSIA.—
Frederick William IV., King of Prussia,
is dead. As a sovereign, he has been
virtually dead for more than two years,
his, mental malady havfng been pro
nounced incurable madness in 1858. On
the 23d of October, 1858, his brother
William took the reins of government as
Prince Regent,'and now succeeds to th
throne as King.
A STRANGE DECEPTION.—Henry Alts- S
was hung in Waterloo, Mass., recent , ,
for murder. He unwillingly shot a ,r
-mer at the instance of his wife, she thr :at
oning to abandon him, unless he perfo m
ed the deed, He died happily ignortnt
of her heartless scheme to free herselt of
his companionship, and in the full +-
fort of the gospel.
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A FASHION LONG NEEDED.—It is dat
ed that the latest " fashion " announied
from Europe is that of dressing very plain
ly when going to church. Some of he
I
ladies of the first circle go up to wors h ip
in plain calico. It is thus sought to Ln
courage the attendance of the poor Bubo
have hitherto withheld their prose co
for lack of " Sunday clothes."
VILLAINOUS.—The Troy Arena noti es
in a comniendatory manner the invent on
of a substitute for fire arms, in the she
of a cylinder filled with vitriol and s
i
charged by a spring. A vallainous , f
fair, and far more likely to be used f r
evil purposes than for self-protectiou. '
MARIETTA, PA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1861
[FQB. TILE MA RIETTI AN.
The Declaration of Independence.
IS IT TRUE?
The opinion of Bancroft, the Histor
ian, that "the war. of the Revolution
must be repeated before - the question of
liberty is settled in America," seems
plausible, when we review the repeated
backslidings of our parties at the North,
as well as the South, on the great ques
tions of human rights. Particularly is
this the case,when we behold the changes
of opinion in regard to the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution - of
the United States.
We have time and room to glance,
very briefly, at only a few of these
changes. The
_power ,of, Congress to
dedicate the territories of the nation to
freedom, was gradually abandoned, by
the Democratic party, notwithstanding
its uniform practice fro'm 'the days of
the Confederation. The South demand
ed "non-intervention,".and the North
yieded so far as to adopt "point-no-point"
"Squatter Sovereignty," • though only a
year before it was almost unanimous for
the Wilmot Proviso—even Gem Cass
having designed voting for it ! Squatter
Sovexeignty soon came to be called "Pop
ular Sovereignty," and was limited to ex
chiding Slavery only when it came to
form,a State Constitution ! And even ,
that shortly vanished in the haze• of " un
friendly legislation," under the dictum
of the Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott
case; from which it partially. emerged,
at the South, in " a Congressional slave
code"; and, at the North, in •"protec
tion by the Federal Courts.".! At each
change, however, as will be seen, Slav
ery won and Freedom lost ground in the
party platforms and speeches.
Corresponding with these, wore -other
changes against liberty, in party senti
ment and feeling. The Democratic par
ty, as organized by Jefferson, was based
on man and his rights,
• rather than on
property and its privileges—of • hoping,
and laboring for the • extinction of slav
ery, as an evil; rather than upholding
and extending it, as a good. Theequal
ity and independence of each of the
three departments—the executive, legis
lative,-and judicial—was also upheld -by
Jefferson and Jackson; instead of con
sidering the Supreme Court as superior.
A jealous 'guard was urged by bot
against that Court as a "sapper and , na .
ner of the Constitution." . And in this
even Mr. Buchanan professed agreement
at that time ! .New, the Dethocratic
party reverse all this,' and uphold the
mere opinion of, Chief Justice Taney on
the right of slavery to the territories, as•
law, and constitution ! Jacksonis •doc
trines on nullification. and secession, and
the right and power of the Federal gov
ernment to enforce the laws on citizens
of the fractious States, now meets strong
opposition from all Southern and many.
Northern Democrats ! In short; nearly
every great principle and measure -in re
lation to the poiver and duty of COn-'
gress and the Federal government, as to'
slavery and the' present claims . of the
slave-poler, formerly held by Jefferson,
Madison, Jackson, and the Demo - cretin.
Statesman of the South generally, only
15 years ago, is now reversed by the
Democratic party in one or both its preS
ent fragments. And the sentiments of
those great men in regard to slavery, as
a moral and political evil, if uttered at
the South to-day, would most probably
incur violence and exile, if not death ;
while at the North, Democrats brand
them as " Abolltionism! "
Corresponding with these successive
changes in behalf of slavery, in the party
platforms and declarations, are the opin
ions and constructions put forth in re
gard to, the Declaration of Independence
—on the principles of which our fathers
based this government and its institu
tions. At the first, finding its great doc
trine of the origin and nature of'human
rights, standing in the way of their no.:
tions of governments based on property
and= privileges, and opposed to' slav
ery. extension, a few persons, hare and,
there, were found bold enough to carp
and sneer at it Its " self evident
truths," that " all men are created ecifial,
and are endowed by their Creator with
certain inaliodable rights, and that
among these are • life, liberty and ilia
pursuit of happiness"—this statement
was pronounced by' one,'"a rhetorical
flourish"—by 'another, as "glittering gen
eralities" put forth by enthusiasm. in a
time of great excitement--by yet anoth
er,. as "a fanfaronade of nonsense"—and
the catalogue of contempt was wound
up, on the floor of Congress, by John
Pettit, of Indiana, (who is now urged on
Mr. Buch:ankfi for appointment for life as
the Federal Judge of Kansas!) as "a
self-evident lie ! !"—and, of course, all
its signers as deliberate LiAss ! ! !
This was, going too far—farther than
the great mass of the party would follow.
*But, as the principles of the Declaration,
in their plEiin i literal meaning, must be
set aside in public opinion, to hide epos
tacy 'from its teachings; ,a' denial was
given up„ and a. new construction sought.
It was, therefore, declared that , though
it was true, yet it did not mean "all men"
—nor even "all white nen"—but Only
"all Nyhite men who were then British
subjects in the AMerican Colonies !"
And to Make this construction as 'an
thmitative as possible, it was first pub
licly enunciated 'by` Chief Justice Taney,
in: the Supreme Court of the , United
States,in the Dred. Scott ca.se t in 180
"In the opinion of the Court, thtf
islation and histories of - the times, ma
the language, used_in .the Declaration of
Independence, show, that neither
,the
class of persons who had been imported
as slaves, nor their descendents, whether
they had becbme free or not, were then
acknowledged' as' a,part of the people,
nor intended to .be.included in the gen
eral words' used , in that memorable in
strument." Again—
The general words above quoted
["we hold these truths." ct - c.] would seem
to embrace the whole human 'family, and
if they 'were used in a similar instrument
atthis day, would be so.understood. But
itis too Clear for dispute, [l] that the
enslaved African race were not' intended
to be iucluded, and formed. no part of
the people who framed and adopted this
Declaration;" Sic. •
This assertion (contradicted by, Justi
ces Curtis and McLean, by all history of
the times, and by declarations of . Colo
nial legislatures and Congresses) was
taken up by Mr. Douglas and .repeated
in every form of assertion, in defiance of
adduced facts and arguMenia to' the COD
tiary, uritilfrequeyit repetition galip‘it the
force of a truth in the minds of 'many;
and it is now, become a doctrine of ihe
party South, and extensively at the
Nortit A careful examination of the
opinions of Jefferson and his fellow pa
trioti Were 1776, and Then of the instru
ment-itself, will show, he' gross misrep
resentations of the Chief Justice to be
without excuse.
Alexander Hamilton well said—" The
sacred Tights of mankind are not to be
rummaged for among old parchments or
musty records. They are written, as
with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of
human nature, by the hand of Divinity
itself, and can never be erased or obscur
ed' by mortal power." In addressing an
American Tory in 1774, he said—" The
fundamental source of all your • errors,
sophisms, and false reasonings, is as total
ignorance of the rights of - mankind.—
Were you once to become acquainted
with these, you could • never entertain a
thought, that all men are not, by nature,
entitled to equal privileges. You would
be cenVinced that ;i'attirailiberty is the,
gift of the beneficent Creator to the
whole human race ; and that civil' liberty
is founded on that." •As Judge Tame?
admits negroes to be of thelmman race,
this language is conclusive against his
assertions of the sentiment at that day
—except among the Tories! .
Jefferson himself, in the Virginia Con
ventinn of 17'74, also said—" Our repeated
attempts to effect this [the abolition of
the African slave trade] byprohibitions,
and by, imposing ' duties which might
amount to prohibition, have been hith
erto defeated by his majesty's negative ;
thus preferring the immediate advantage
of a few African corsairs to the lasting
interests of the American States, and
the rights of human nature, deeply wound
ed by this. infamous practice." Jeffer
son, then, did not assent to the infamous
sentiment of O. J. Taney, that the black
man "had no rights which the white
man wee bound to respect," when he
I thus brands as "corsairs" those engaged
in enslaving him ! •
And now to the Deelaration itself;
for I have neither time nor room to
quote other contemporary authorities.—
Will the reader turn to the Declaration,
and read it in connection with my re-
I use Jefferson's Works, vol. 1,
p. 16:2t. irote carefully its order and
course of Statement and reasoning. Also,
its destitution of ornament in style—no
"rhetorical' fleurishes," 'no' "glittering
generalities", no "-fanfaronade's " of any
kind; but all is 'calm, cool, deliber
ate and very precise.
First, xird have a Preamble of one sen
tence only, Stating the " character and
design of the document.
,
Second, ive, have the fonndation-af
giment, of a gendral ehariaer ; for very
properly, they proceeded from generals
to particalars--frOin the tufiv.ersal to the
special. The rights of the Colonists
and the Colonies, rests, therefore, on the
rights, of human nature itself—on the de
sign. and will of the :Creator of man in
his very creation. So Jefferson based
them„ on the . enumerated "self-evident
truths," the equality of men by creation,
"in the endowment of inalienable because
inherent rights—conferred, not by some
King or Emp'erer, or some musty "Mag
na Charts," or other old parchment ; but
by the Creator hiinself. He then speci
.
ally names those equal rights on which
the action of Congress was about to
turn—the equal right of all to "life, lib
erty, and the purSuit' of happiness."—
Having shown the origin and nature of
those rights, and specified these, (thaen
croachments on which drew forth the
Declaration,) he prOceeds to the origin
and character of human governments.—
Here, again; he pi;oceeds from the gen
erals to details. Governments are de
signed, not to.create rights, nor todestroi/
or impair them, but to secure them.; and
derive their just powers from the consent
of the governed. The idea that govern
ment is a bargain between ruler's and
subjects, in which "subjects give up.
some of their rights to the government
for . the security of the rest," is exploded
by this Declaration. Governmehis de
rive their 'Just powers" from the people ;
not any rights, as a bargain 'or - barter;
for goVernment has nothing-'to giie in
return for "right's"---it is the-mere aggre
gation of the powers of the owners of
rights, so as to make them powerful to
pro
teat and secure their individual rights.)
This definition of government; its origin
and end, brings the assertion of the fight
of the people to alter or abOlish it, when :
ever it ceaseslo secure their; rights, or
promote their wdlfare—and thus the
Declaration-glides the statement
promised in the Preamble, Of "the causes
of separation." From henceforward the
general principles are dropPed, and de- .
'tails arid applications, only,' are dwelt
upon.
But, prior to this "statement amuses,"
there is no contrast'or comparison drawn'
between the Home•subjects and the Col
onial' subjects of Great Britain, as
Douglas alleges; no lithitatiou to 'the
white inhabitants of this country, as
Judge Taney asserts. Vast humanity,
in less,)is named and meant in that
statement of •"self-evident truths," so
tersely laid down. They • are . nature/
rights, conferred by Deity; not 'civil
privileges, conferred' by Great'Britan—
human rights, belonging to the race; not
political or social, conferred by any na
tion or people On portion of their own
number: • •
But as my article bas grown beyond
the limits I designed. I defer to another
week what yethavo to sayon'the niean
ing, .of 'the equality' of all men.; and on
the views evidently held by the Franiers
and Signers or the'Dbelaration, and their
conteinporaries as to its meaning. I
trust the importance of the.subject, and
the alarmitig spread of the dangerous er
rers I combat, will be deemed sufficient
excuse for my occupying so much room
in these articles. A. B. G..
r GROUND HOG D ' AY.—February second
was the Celebrated "ground hog day,"
which, according to legend, fixes the
question of an early or late Spring. The
story goes that on that day the ground
hog—or, as the Yankees call it, wood
chuck—leaves his winter quarters and
sallies forth to snuff - the air. If there is
no sun to show him his shadow, he goes
cautiously about, and will even venture
to dig , up a few roots, to try the hard
ness of the soil as well as to tickle his
palate a little, after his long hibernation.
But in doing this, should a glimmering
of sunshine strike him sufficiently strong
to mark his shadow on the
. ground, he
hies at once to his hole,Aliere to `hiber.
nate for six weeks—as instinct teaches
hint that winter will certainly linger
that much longer. Should there' be no
patches ,of suuthine to disturb Mr.
Woodchuck, he remains out, 'knowing
that the reign of Jack Frost will speed
ily terminate. \\ ho saw the sun on Sat=
urday last ?
1 1 / 1 . SLIDELL ON, TUE PRESIDENT.—In
the course of the recent debate on Mr.
nomination, Mr: Slidell charged
the President with
. deliberate deception
and perfidy in the grossest and most of
fensive terms, and alleged that six Sen
ators stood ready to prove that they
conferred with him personally, before
his message, concerning the Sluth Car
olina Comenitsioners;add flit allegations
it contained Were'shame.fullyfulio: I.le
said otlieribings equally hhatl.Co
The valub of aurph'prepetty-intNew
York is at f ,59,098,700 ;, in Phila
delphia at s4,T*o4,and'in-03esteu,at
$3,152,390.
Ter - n).,----Cais =scalar a -Y-ea-r
THE THREE COMPROMNES • The - •
Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Tribune thus 'concisely, and, we think,
fairly states the three prominent propo
sitions 'now before the county for the
settlement of existing difficulties :
I. Mr. Adame t proposition. This pro
poses to furnish 'a constitutional guaranty
that the Federal Government will never
hereafter iaterfere with Slavery in the
States, and to pass a legislative act al
lowing all our territory south of 36 deg.
30 min. to come in as a State, with or
without Slavery, as the Territory may
choose.
11. What is known as the Bord , lr-
State proposition. This is to prohibit
Slavery north of 36 deg. 30 min.; and,
below that line, to stipulate that neither
Congress nor the Territorial authorities
shall ever introduce or exclude Slavery,
but leave it to fight its own way, under
the protection of the Federal Courts; or,
on the other hand, to be discouraged by
the,Executive Government, or encour
aged, just according to the proclivities
of the Executive for, the time being.—
This plan also favors incidental points
in aid, of Slavery.
111. The main proposition of the slave
holders, supported by Mr. Crittenden,
and, which covers all their claims. This
is to establish Slavery by constitutional
guaranty in all the existing territory
south of 36 degrees 30 minutes, and all
that may be hereafter acquired. Also,
to allow the transit of slaves through the
Free States; and to distinctly recognize
them as property by the Constitution.
Of these three propositions, the slave
holders reject the first two as wholly in
sufficient. Toombs and Davis, before
they declared themselves willing to
accept., the third, or Mr. Crittenden's,
bat:they, would take no less. This was
just what the National Democratic Con
vention split upon. The Southern wing
derdanded the' protection of Slaiery in
the Territories, from,thecr Douglas con-
federates, who refused to'grant it. It is
what Virginia claimed then, and what
she claims now. Only then the Slave
Statesinsisted that it should , be incor
porated into the, party platforp, while
now they insistupon haying it go into
the Constitution.
STARTLING, BUT MGR, !--111alce way for
the New Philosophy. It is the weakness
of small minds to reject new systems,
simply because they are, startling. They
forget that apples had been dropping to
the earth.for•6,ooo consecutive years un
der the, noses of philosophers as well as
fools, before Newton deduced the theory
of gravitation from the fall of a pippin.
Is there anything irrational, then, in sup
posing that Thomas Holloway, a man of
deep research and strong practical intel
lect, may have discovered and applied
successfully the natural antidotes to a
large proportion of human diseases?—
Let. it be remembered . that for many
years this indefatigable student, shrouded
in'the 'fumes of his laboratory, was en
_gaged in Pharmaceutical experiments,'
all'directed to the great object which he
'aims to have attained. Nature is a
strict custodian of her mysteries, and
only discloses them when enforced by
indomitable energy and perseverance.—.
While the disciples' of old and effete
medical theories, were following, the
beaten track of routine, he struck out a
new path, and founded a new system of
treatment. What has been the issue ?
Ask the world, for nearly half its inhab
itants have endorsed his remedies. Be
sides the name that authenticates his
Pills and Ointment, it may be said that
the broad seal of public approval is affix
ed to them, and that' the certificate of
their infallibility bears upon its face
every written language in existence.—
Simple facts are the only admissible tes
timony in a matter which involves health
and life—and the facts that go to estab
lish the cnrative,properties of these prep
arations are overwhelming. Of the suf
ferers : from dyspepsia, liver complaint,
dibility, scrofula, and almost every spe
cies of febrile, cutaneous and glandular
disorder—"a multitude that •no man Can
number" have cordially approved •them'.
Surely, those who have recovered under
the operation of the medihines, aid' the
most competent judges of their 'virtu*,
and we acquiesce without hesitation in
their decision.—Leeds Mercury...
FORFEITS CIIEERFULLY PAID.—The
school-mistresses whom Gov: Slade, off'
Vermont, sent, out to Oregon, were ; to
pay .a fine of five, hundred dollars if they
married under one year. , lgost of the
girlkpai4 Ow:fines : within six months. ,
The B,ant orKentucky has made a
douatiqu of fiV,e4liundred irollars fur Liku
relief of the pour of I,ouivillu.
NO. 30